The James Adams
Floating Theatre
C. Richard Gillespie

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1991 | 288 pp | Black-and-white photographs | Maps | Appendix | Notes | Bibliography | Index | 7x10 | 978-0-87033-416-0

The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and, when retirement proved boring, decided to build a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting, arrests, and several deaths.

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